Then she laughed ironically.

"I _do_ forgive.

It is all that a prince or a princess is ever asked to do, I'm beginning to believe.

I also forgive you for coming into my life." "If I had been a trifle more intelligent, I should not have come into it at all," he said.

She turned upon him quickly, stung by the remark.
"Is that the way you feel about it ?" she asked sharply.
"You don't understand.